Union environmental representatives: write to your MP

Below is the text of a model letter sent out by the Communication Workers’ Union to encourage members to contact their MP to support an Early Day Motion calling for recognition for trade union environment representatives.

Dear Member of Parliament,
We are writing to urge you to sign Early Day Motion 1438 which calls for recognition for [...]

Green Bans and the BLF: the labour movement and urban ecology

John Tully
For John Loh, militant builder’s labourer, supporter of the NSW BLF and the Green Bans, and later an organiser in the construction workers’ union, the CFMEU. Died at Melbourne, 24 November 2003.

Jack Mundey

It is one of life’s great ironies that the same regime which brought us environmental disasters such as [...]

PCS launches green workplace website

The PCS has launched a new section on its website focusing on environmental issues in the workplace. Visit it here.

“Climate change is most definitely a union issue. The workplaces that we organise – and seek to organise – burn energy, consume resources and generate waste.” First Steps to a Greener Workplace, TUC, 2006 These [...]

Is climate change a trade union issue? CWU fringe meeting

Fringe meeting 8th June 2008
On the opening day of CWU annual conference, over 50 delegates flocked to a dynamic fringe meeting focussing on the role of trade unions in climate change issues. Speakers raised issues ranging from the capitalist appropriation of natural resources, to the inadequacy of market mechanisms and big business to deal with [...]

New Campaign Against Climate Change Trade Union Leaflet

Download the new Campaign Against Climate Change leaflet for trade unionists here.
Climate change leaflet for trade unionists
 
 
 

Download the UCU environmental newsletter

Download the UCU’s environmental newsletter here.
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Lecturers’ Union UCU will press colleges and universities to do more on climate change

The University and College Union (UCU) will press UK colleges and universities to do more to prevent damaging climate change.
At its recent annual Congress, UCU union delegates called for all branches of the union – the UK’s tenth biggest – to elect environment reps and to engage with employers to develop sustainable work practices, [...]